Prior to posting I have made attempts to find the answers among existing posts, however I was unable to find anything which worked.
I am trying to clean up a HD which has only 4GB of free space. On ...

I am following this tutorial and the first step I’ll need to do is delete the Linux partitions.
Do I have to remove any of these non file extension parts?
I would like to delete the Linux partitions ...

I was installing android studio through the terminal but I had to stop the installation by pressing Ctrl+Z. Now I am trying to run autoclean (after a restart) but it won't run.Why is this happening?
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I am trying to get a basic and simple installation of Ubuntu 14.04. First I executed update and install and later I start to remove all my docs from /usr/share/doc/* but I want to keep removing some ...

My partition, /dev/sda7 is listed as 100% full. I already requested help from others more knowledgeable than me, and someone had me run "sudo chmod 755 /dev/sda7 -R", which I've since been told that ...

I had a Ubuntu 12.04 system which I eventually managed to get Python 2.7 and Python 3.2 working together (with pip and pip3) and Python 3.3 (with pip3.3) for good measure.
I've recently upgraded to ...

I administrate a multi-user system that has had quite a lot of user turnover. The users who have left us still have a folder in the folder /home. I would like to remove the folders for the users that ...

I have a laptop with 14.04 installed on it, and I've had Ubuntu on this machine since 12.04. I notice that I have "duplicates" (old versions) of some programs, namely update manager, belonging to both ...

I am looking for good tools that can be used to get rid of useless clutter of the system. Note that I'm not talking about deleting useless things, that I can manually do.
I am looking for tools like ...

I'm having some problems with a full disk.
According to df -k I'm using 47 gb of data in my home folder and I have no idea where all of that data is hiding. I tried using the disk usage analyser aka ...

I need to do a lot of cleaning in my Virtual Machine whose Operating System is Ubuntu.
Normally in Windows, there is this kind of directory that contain temporary files and that should be cleaned :
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I'm new with Ubuntu so I don't understand most of it.
A few days ago, everytime that I start the computer, I have a prompt box saying that my disk is full and I have the option to check the disk with ...

I'm running Ubuntu on a limited-size SSD, so I count every GB. Now, the ~/.cache folder grew to 1.7 GB (various applications such as Chrome, Spotify etc. filled it up) and now I'm wondering if there's ...

When have the garbage in the command line, I can simply hit escape and it is cleaned. Nothing happens in Linux. What is the corresponding command? Backspace over the whole string is boring and stupid.
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I have started working on a new project using gedit on ubuntu 12.04. The problem i am facing now is that, all previously searched terms are still there when i click on the drop down arrow in search ...

I installed MagicDraw 17.0 SE in /opt running the sh I downloaded from the official site.
I had to re-install it because of a java issue, so I deleted the opt/MagicDraw folder and I ran the sh again.
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I made the mistake of downloading the X64 version of Truecrypt and trying to install it when I'm actually running the 32-bit version of Precise Pangolin.
I want to clean up the files that I am unable ...

I am using glogg to scan log files, but since the installation all the searches are saved somewhere and it is getting huge and huge.
Using Bleachbit to clean the system isn't helpful for glogg until ...

I want to install latest Ubuntu 12.04, once it gets released, on top of my actual 10.10. The main reason is that I get the "not supported" message, and cannot upgrade to newer distributions through ...

Motivation:
I want to remove applications I do not use to speed up my package processing tasks like dist upgrades, regular updates, but also for saving disk space and other reasons. I know this is a ...

I played around a lot with installing WINE and some stuff for party poker. Also I was following some tutorials on installing adobeair on x64 system. I believe I have downloaded quite a lot -> 200MB ...